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Etiquette (how to be a climbing dickhead) 25-Jan-2009 At 8:02:12 PM grego

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That was one of my first trad leads, as i am sure it is for many. I reckon i would have been pretty
stressed if that had happened to me.

Along a similar line - friend of mine was leading the first pitch of Skink. It was one of her first leads on
trad. There was a guy next to us getting ready to do Auto De Fe. Anyways, he was chatting away
quite loudly about climbing falls and deaths on a route he had put up. I asked politely if he could
change the topic given someone was leading. And he quips "Well if she's scared she should put more
pro in." I'm like....WTF?

Then i am doing the second pitch and he says "a lot of people having been pulling on those
chockstones over the years". Hmm. Thanks for the insight mate.. but there is a time and a place.

Anyway, he did the first pitch of Auto De Fe and after that he was too scared so he backed off. So we
were pretty chuffed with that.